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TIFU by being lazy and potentially scarring myself for life

Obligatory this didn't happen today

I'm a chemist working in my first real job out of college at a lab. When I started I was shocked by how lax the safety rules were in regards to PPE- we're really only required to wear a lab coat and goggles when dealing with particularly hazardous chemicals, which is pretty rare. Gloves are barely required either; apparently OSHA is cool with whatever as long as safety equipment is provided to us, otherwise it's a personal choice whether we want to actually wear it or not.

So that means that a lot of us don't use PPE for most things, and usually we don't have any problems. But on Friday, right at the end of the day when I was finishing some stuff up, I was pipetting a very concentrated acid. Again, it's not unusual for us to not wear gloves for stuff like this- if I was pouring it I would've worn gloves, but for simple pipetting that only took 2 seconds I didn't bother. When I went to put the acid away, there must've been a little liquid on the cap as I screwed it back on and it dripped onto my hand. Obviously I immediately ran to the sink to rinse it... but my bf took one look and said it's a good thing I wasn't planning on becoming a hand model.

Luckily it doesn't look as awful today or yesterday, but it was pretty scary for a moment. To make it worse, I am on the safety committee at work and we WILL be reviewing the incident report at our next meeting. Lesson learned to wear gloves 24/7.

TL:DR; Didn't wear gloves while handling acid and some dripped on my bare hand. Might have a scar, but more importantly my coworkers are going to be so annoyed if they end up mandating gloves at all times now.

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